Bottle closure



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C. L. TURNER BOTTLE CLOSURE Filed Marh 9. 1922 CHAR-LES TUR'ER, GF LGS ANGELES, 'CL'IFRNEA.

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33e it known that lf, CHARMS L. Tn'uxnn, a citizen of the United States, residing; at Los Angeles, in ne eountji7 of Los Angeles and State of Californiaq here inve-meel :i new and useful Improvement in lfotle Closures, of which the following is n specification llqy invention relaes to bottle closures unil more particularly to bottles in Wliieli milk or cream are commonlyv sold. ylit is the priloiice 'hronghoui llie United Smiles to furnisli mill: or cream to the Consumer in a. glass bottle which is provided with a paste board cap, this cap being slightly laire-er *allan ille top of lie bol'le so llint it is frietionnlly reained in place therein. These paper Caps are soniewliai; difficult lo remove7 -he usual method now in use being to drive a pointed instrument through il'ie (einer oli the cap which is l'lien priecl upwardly.

It is an object of my invention lo provide mes-ns by which die oeps muy be reiulily removed.

lt is a further object of invention to provide removing ineens which will be extremely Cheap to inszill und which can be readily put in place during the operzil'ion of capping the bottles Wllicn is ordinarily zu*- eoinplislieil by nulornatie machinery.

Further objefls mul eilvzmlziges will mingle evident hereinafter.

lxefoixing lo the -fli'iiwing' nl'iii'li is for illustrative purposes only7 Fig l is :i perspective view ol u bottle equipped will) my invenlion.

Fig. i3 is n'view showing' ioo mollloil ol' removing .he Gzip.

In the ioi'in of' the invention shown :i milk mi l l( 1822. Serial No. 542,221.

bottle l1 having a neck is 'proyiilecl willi a stepped opening 18 into which nlm ordinary paste board oep le in' be inserted, the members 12 to le being oid in the art.

in the practice of my invenion i place across 1he top of the bottle a, piece oi string l5 which is heavily improgneecl with paraine or the like, this string l5 being forced down during the operation of cappingA s'o that il', lies under the cap le 'with the two ends lzind l? of the string projeeling` et each side of ine oep. These info ends rre allowed to project as shown in Fig;v i il it is desired lo renimfe the @op W iicli may be Conveniei'itlj,Y done by ple/ing the .thumb 20 of the righi handen lie end l? of the string and. pulling upon the end 16 by ineens the left inmcll. This rais-es one side of the cap 14 so that it een be read-ily removed from the bottle.

, eleim as my invention:

l. A bottle closure comprising: e thin peper cap secured in the neck of ai bottle; and a string; passing below lie cap, und which is not attached in any wey to said Cep, bu'r is lfiictionzilly held :it two separated poins between seid cup and lie neck of Said bottle. i

2. A bottle closure :is in Claim l in .vliich bolli ends of .suini string; project from the sides of said Cain 3. A bottle closure as in eleini 1 in which one emi of said string projects from :i siile of said Cep. v

`n testimony whereof, l have hereunto set my lmml al, Los Angeles, California, this LHli luy ol March 1922.

@HA RLES L. TURNER. 

